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“If we are not given special status by 5th of April, our MPs will resign by April 6, 2018” – YSRCP Chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy announces during his padyatra in Kaligiri, Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh while addressing a public gathering*.........

After managing to retain their most lethal trio of MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have roped in their former star batsman Michael Hussey as batting coach for Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018 season.........

The world's oldest algae fossils are a billion years old, according to a study which found that the basis for photosynthesis in today's plants was set in place 1.25 billion years ago. The study, published in the journal Geology, may resolve a long-standing mystery over the age of the fossilized algae, Bangiomorpha pubescens, which were first discovered in rocks in Arctic Canada in 1990.........

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a 12-km stretch of Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line with a ride between the Botanical Garden and the Okhla Bird Sanctuary stations here.Mr. Modi was accompani........

The Indian opener spoke about how people were always obsessed about the colour of his skin, "I have been travelling a lot within and outside our country since I was 15. Ever since I was young, people's obsession with my skin colour has always been a mystery to me. Any one who follows cricket would understand the obvious. I have played and trained day in and day out in the sun and not once have I regretted the fact that I have tanned or lost a couple of shades. It is si........

Kolkata witnessed the worst sex ratio drop of any district targeted by the government’s scheme to tackle gender imbalance, women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi told the Lok Sabha on Friday. Kolkata’s sex ratio fell from 1,022 girls for every 1,000 boys in 2014 to 898 on July 28.........

Most of them go to wealthy private schools and come from a very privileged background. What prompted these students to flirt with LSD? The reports on the drug trail that has shocked the Telangana capital........

Authorities today imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar to maintain law and order in view of separatists' call for a strike and march to the local office of the United Nations here. The officials said the restrictions on the movement of people were imposed as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order in view of the separatists call for strike and a march to the office of United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) at Sonwar here.........

After Mumbai-based digital media company Culture Machine, Kerala-based Malayalam news channel Mathrubhumi has announced ‘First Day of Period Leave’ for its employees. The channel employs around 75 women as part of its 300-member team and is offering 12 days of ‘First Day of Period Leave’ each year.........

In what seems like yet another discrimination that the LGBTQ community in India is facing, the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) has allegedly said in an RTI reply that people from the community cannot donate blood because they are at 'high-risk'.........

At least 20 people have been killed after a bus rolled down a gorge in Khanetri, near Shimla's Rampur in Himachal Pradesh on 20 July. The bus was going from from Kinnaur to Solan when the mishap occurred.........

A senior official of the Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department of Tamil Nadu, which is responsible for the development and welfare of Dalits and Adivasis, said the report of 25 Dalit activists being murdered over the past year has not come to their attention. This is despite the fact that mainstream newspapers carried reports on Evidence’s findings.........

A 27-year-old singer-actor from Assam was found dead inside her Gurgaon flat. Bidisha Bezbaruah was found hanging from a ceiling fan with a dupatta tied around her neck Her husband, Nisheeth Jha, has been arrested on charges of abetment of suicide.........

A dengue outbreak has killed at least 21 people in Kerala in the past three weeks, a government official said, adding that there was a shortage of medicines and health workers to tackle the crisis in the tourist hotspot.........

His 16-year-old daughter, the sixth of his seven children, was found in the Halaila forests of Mahasu in the apple-rich Kotkhai area, 56 km from Shimla, on July 6, two days after she went missing on her way home from school. The postmortem report had confirmed rape and death by strangulation, and revealed that she had deep injuries all over her face and body. The girl’s death had triggered protests across Shimla, prompting the state home department to hand over the case to the CBI.........

Indian cricket team pacer Umesh Yadav’s house was robbed on Monday as unidentified thieves entered the cricketer’s apartment near Shankar Nagar in Nagpur and took Rs 45,000 cash and two mobile phones. The family was not in the apartment at the time of the incident.........

Congress leader Rohit Tilak, the great grandson of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, has been booked for rape.According to reports, the complainant, who is in her forties, had known the suspect for the last few years, and she in her complaint to the police had accused Tilak of rape and unnatural sex. The suspect had raped the woman on the pretext of marrying her. ........

A mob lynching isn’t the same as any physical harm or a killing. It needs several components to come together: attackers, spectators and outnumbered victim(s). It needs the public humiliation of the victim and, unlike a lawful process of punishment, a lynching is a demonstration that the sentiments of the attackers are beyond the law or the government. In the attempt to rationalise such mob killings, it becomes important to understand how the brains of those involved, including the ........

A 16-year-old girl who claims to be a national-level kabaddi player has alleged that she was raped by an athlete on July 9. The girl approached the police with her complaint on Monday after which a case was registered.
The girl, a resident of north Delhi, claimed she wasn’t conscious when the incident happened. “She said she only recalls seeing a huge room. She doesn’t know where exactly it happened,” said a senior police officer.........